Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When British Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank visited Hollywood last summer, the gilded city wined and wooed him like everybody's business. Rank held the key to U.S. movie profits in the foreign market, and everybody wanted the key. Last week it looked as if two of Hollywood's studios finally...
None of the good things in the picture has much to do with the story. The best of them is the children's Nativity play, in which Bobby Dolan, son of the picture's musical director, doubles in the roles of St. Joseph and narrator. Bobby, catching his breath with a long wheezing intake, says, "Oh-this is Mary and I'm Joseph. And we came to Bethlehem to see if we can have some place-find some place to stay. And that's all you have to know really." In the stable, an angel sits...
After that, the corroboration of Joseph C. Grew, the pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to Tokyo, was an anticlimax: "[The Hull note] was in no respect an ultimatum.... I never said the Hull reply touched the button. I never understood how the board got that impression...
Demobilization was the reason. Before she put to sea on her shakedown, Captain Joseph F. Bolger* had warned that she might be unable to leave port unless qualified replacements were supplied at once, to take the place of engine-room officers and men going ashore for discharge. Scraping holes in the bottom of its manpower barrel, the Bureau of Naval Personnel had found enough hands to keep the Midway's twelve boilers and four engines running...
Addition in Moscow. The Russian attitude toward China was obscure. At Potsdam Joseph Stalin had said: "The U.S.S.R. favors a strong, unified China. It is our belief that this objective can be accomplished only by the Central Government of Chiang Kaishek. This government is not the strongest kind of government but it is the strongest in sight in China." Nonetheless, Russian troops had managed to impede Nationalist landings at Manchurian ports and turn over some areas to the Chinese Reds...